Posted on: Pennsylvania Dutch Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/Dutch?read=4950 Surname: Brown, Karger, Bickel ------------------------- This sounds like it connects to my family. I am descended from a Michael Brown, probably the father of the Michael Brown you mentioned. He married Anna Karger in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on January 26, 1746. They had 11 children. The oldest was Catherine, who is my great, great great grandmother. She married Jacob Bickel in 1766. Michael Brown was born in Pennsylvania in 1724 and died there in 1785. He operated a grist mill in Lancaster County. His daughter, Catherine and her husband Jacob moved to Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1784. One of their neighbors there was Michael Brown, who I presume to be one of Catherine's younger brothers. He was born in 1751. I have a muster record of his Revolutionary War service. One of the sisters, Anna Mary, married Frederick Leonard and they moved to Washington County, Virginia. I know some of the family ended up in Wythe County. My ancestors, Jacob and Catherine Bickel, moved on to Montgomery County, then Botetourt County, and then possibly on to Washington County.